1. FirstDoNoHarm Conference 2024

Critical perspectives on sex and gender in healthcare

Baroness Dianne Hayter Former Deputy Shadow leader of the Lords Former Chair of the Labour Party, has sat on the NCC & National Patient Safety Agency & chaired the Legal Services Consumer Panel. Previously Shadow Brexit Minister, she has run a number of NGOs including Alcohol Concern, is on the board of the ABI & is a published historian.

Foreword from Baroness Hayter All patients - people with gender or sex uncertainties, together with their families - need the very best medical advice & therapy. In this emerging area, with untested interventions & a lack of long term follow up and data, it is even more important that we hold to the normal scientific approach: robust data collection, peer reviewed analysis & continuing debate to assist emerging knowledge & understanding. Particularly for young people, they & their parents & carers need the confidence to know that any interaction with a medical service, but particularly their first one, often with their GP, will be patient focused, ideology free & above all based on best evidence. This conference is important for helping to produce & improve the knowledge on which any treatment should be based. #FirstDoNoHarm

Dr Louise Irvine GP and CAN-SG co-chair Dr Louise Irvine was a GP partner, trainer & programme director for GP trainees in Lewisham for many years, and is semi-retired but still working as a GP one day a week. Co-chair of CAN-SG she is an ardent campaigner for the NHS, & chaired the successful Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign.